A Theoretical Analysis of Why Masked Diffusion Models Mitigate the Reversal Curse

arXiv:2602.02133 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-02-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-02-02

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Training Objective — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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